Eighty-five more people have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused while in custody in Maryland's juvenile detention system, according to a law firm.

The juvenile was granted bail shortly after the incident on relatively lenient conditions, including writing a 300-word essay ...

Katherine O. Berger, a criminal defense attorney who has represented youths charged with serious crimes, will work out of the ...

The Dallas County juvenile department has undergone an in-depth evaluation of how it handles detainees by an independent ...

Eighty-five people joined a civil complaint against Maryland and the state Department of Juvenile Services over alleged sexual abuse at dozens of youth detention centers as early as 1974 to 2018, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said this week that hundreds of grantees will see their funding slashed, including the ...

Among the programs that are being targeted include grants that supported victims of crime, hotlines used by crime victims, human trafficking grants awarded to organizations that work with immigrants ...

The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, ...

As two cellmates were fighting in a Riverside County jail, an inexperienced guard remotely opened the cell door, a violation ...

The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from mental healthcare for police ...

WASHINGTON >> The Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from services for mental ...

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act ...